Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty - the only one. People went to America to be free.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work.

It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.